Allen Ginsberg typed letter signed to Gregory Corso, 1983 Nov. 1.

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Allen Ginsberg typed letter signed to Gregory Corso, 1983 Nov. 1.

The letter is typed (with autograph additions) on the back of a flyer for a Naropa Institute conference on the life, times and work of Jack Kerouac. Ginsberg discusses friends, death, pain, his mother, his own health, and his relationship with Corso.

1 page with envelope.

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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Gould, Stanley

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William Fuller was born 1423 in Rendenhall, Norfolk County, England, and died 1511 in Redenhall. From the description of Fuller family / compiled by Stanley W. Gould and Helen E Ratner Gould. 2001. (Scranton Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48204563 John Gould was born in 1646 in Dartmouth, Devonshire County, England. Emigrated to America from Wales in 1664. Died 1691 in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. From the description of Gould family / compiled by Stanley W. ...

Corso, Gregory

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American writer, primarily of poetry, Corso was born in New York City in 1930. He worked as a migrant laborer, newspaper reporter for the L.A. Examiner, and merchant seaman before joining the English Department at SUNY Buffalo in 1965. In the mid-1950s he began to give public readings of his poetry, often sharing the stage with other Beat poets. His 1958 volume, GASOLINE, marks the beginning of his long association with San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore and the Bay Area in general, which fig...

Naropa Institute

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The Naropa Institute was founded in 1974 by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, as a summer school. It offered courses, workshops and performances in dance, theater, music, painting, religious studies, psychology and cognitive science. By 1976, two year-round Master of Arts programs and three one-year certificate programs had begun. In 1978, the Institute received candidacy for accreditation status from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. By 1982, the Naropa In...

Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010

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Writer, associate of Allen Ginsberg. From the description of Papers, 1954-1971. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122482491 American poet, born July 8, 1933, in New York City. From the description of Peter Orlovsky Papers, 1952-1983. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590485 Peter Orlovsky, poet, musician, farmer, teacher, and companion of po...